Re: Why Xfce?

Re: Why Xfce?

Really fast, works with variety of OSs, accommodates Compiz (I'm a Sphere fan!). Seems to me the best way to get the best features of Ubuntu without the bad (i.e. using Xubuntu). Also accessible to relative newbies like me!

Re: Why Xfce?

holden87 wrote:

My question to you is: why do you prefer Xfce?

Because:

The newest computer that I own is, I believe, at least eight years old.I found, after learning that GNOME 2.x had been dropped, was - IMO - closer to my GNOME 2.x experience than GNOME 3, MATE, or any other DE I have tried (and, as far as that goes, turned out to be an even better DE - again, for me - than GNOME 2.x was), that it not only had the benefit of doing what I want a DE to do whilst "staying out of my way," otherwise, but as it was neither "the new GNOME" nor a fork that tried to be "the old GNOME," I neither felt that it was as big a mistake as "the new Coca~Cola" nor did I have to worry about feeling that it was the old one until I expected something to look/act/perform/et cetera like the old one... and realized that, no, it really wasn't. IOW, Xfce is its own DE, not a clone, fork, or poor - as in almost, but not quite, lol - imitation of another DE. And that's okay, because as it's own DE... It's a very nice one .It uses less memory and CPU than other DEs I have tried that were even close to what I was looking for, and not significantly more than the ones that weren't.I haven't seen any reports of "politicking" where Xfce or its team are concerned.The one time that I went looking for a solution to two issues I had (desktop background auto-changer not working reliably and my top bar getting stuck "unhid" often), I found that there were already updates to fix those issues and that I only needed to add a PPA to my sources list instead of compiling - and that performing those updates did not break a single thing on my system.(Less of a factor - but still a factor:) I like the xfce4-weather-plugin a lot, in many ways much more than the one in the previous DEs I used (although I do miss the ability to have an image in it and being able to customize that image so that it was an animated radar image of my region).Because I have not managed to break it simply by using it and changing a few settings here and there <KNOCKS ON WOOD>.Because, even though it is great on my old low-CPU-power/low-RAM/low-graphics computers, it is also great on my friend's new 6gig Core i5 3210M laptop, which means that when he calls me with a question/problem (it's his very first computer), I have the benefit of having basically the same setup to be able refer to when trying to figure out what he is talking about .